Cherish the moment

Lets be honest here, life can seem pretty dull somethings. We all accept responsibilities and then drag our feet as we feel obligated to accomplish them. We have all whined and complained about mundane tasks. We have all allowed boredom or sadness to control our focus and direct our stream of thoughts. I admit that I have definitely fallen victim in becoming blind to the love and blessings that compose my life. That is why I thankful towards God for giving me so many reminders of how to cherish the moment and wear a smile on my face.

These God given reminders happen daily, yet I so often label them as simply ordinary consequences. But, ever once a while, a powerful brief period of time awakens my memories of beauty. My last grand reminder happened just this last Tuesday, but I am going to rewind the story a little bit before that, only like a few years back or so. 

My first year of college was the first year I meet this man, yes the man creepily standing in the door way. 

As you can tell, Greg and I knew each other but our friendship wasn't that strong, nor went that deep. It lasted that way for a while. There was only picture I could find of us being new acquiescence is, you guessed it. This one. 

But I do recall one of the first interactions I had with Greg was him showing me a picture of a beautiful infant baby girl. He told me that it was he daughter, Olivia, and he placed her in adoption. I smiled as I held at the photo, not knowing how I was going to grow to love the little one. 

As my two years of Snow College progressed, so did my friendship with Greg. I soon found myself classifying him as "my adopted older brother." He became a family member away from home. He was there to give me words of motivations, relationship advice, and hugs when I most needed them and so on. 

 After graduating I transferred to Utah Valley University. It was a pleasure to see the familiar face of Greg in the big hall way.  In between classes, I would enjoy the pictures and short videos of  Olivia that Greg would share. I truly became found of her cute squinty face as she smiled and her squeaky voice as she would speak. We both were falling in love with a beautiful little toddler through emails.  

Now that we are all caught up I will explain this last Tuesday.
"Wow, you look real handsome today... did you get a hair cut?" I asked Greg as we sat in hallway. His brother laughed as he said no. "I like your shirt, what the occasion?"

"I have thing in a few hours" He replied.

"A thing? That's all your gonna tell me? A thing? A thing could be anything. " I grind.  

"Yep."

Randomly within the next couple hours I would ask questions and try to guess what this mysterious "thing" could be. I would get yes and no answers but eventually I gave up trying. 

Latter, I was sitting in my night class, I get a text from him saying "Text me when you get out of class."
My class went a bit longer then usual and I glanced into the doorway and there was Greg with a teasing impatient look on his face. Finally my class got out and I meet him in the hall way.

Beaming he said "I meet her!"

Confusion come over me for a second, until it dawn on me... he was talking about it daughter. It was the first time he ever saw Olivia face to face. Squealing, I hugged him. Both of us smiling, he told me every detail. Anyone that just walked by might have I was listening  to a man telling a simple story about playing with a little girl, but they wouldn't realize the significance and power this moment held. The father's love that I saw Greg possess made me cry.

Crying as I walked home, I thought of all the beautiful small moments that we don't even realize that we own. Anything can seem glorious if we look at it through lenses of acknowledgment and appreciation.

. We all need to stop and make sure that we cherish the moment, because not everyone is blessed to have the moments that we have the honor to experience.